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The Mind/Body Problem
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Hum the Bas Will Do?
Epiphenomenalism is a challenge to our whole way of understanding ourselves, i think that's what makes people so shy of it. If there is no mental causation, if our thoughts can never have any causal impact on the world, then our whole notion of ourself as agents really goes out the window. I mean, we don't do things because we have certain thoughts. And all our notions, for example, of knowledge, the kinds of perceptions that we have of the world and the way that we reason from one belief to another go out the window as well. So what are we doing here? Now, if epiphenomanalism is true, it's very
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